Instruments used in cardiology

Instruments used specially in cardiology are as follows:


InstrumentUses
Defibrillatorused to correct abnormal electrical activity of the heart like when terminating a fibrillation
Vascular stentsused to mechanically open up a coronary artery occlusion, generally due to atherosclerosis
Pacemakerused to correct the hearts rate and rhythm

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